Quilting-frame



No. 626,928. Patented June [3, I899.

' W. M.-PHILLIPS.

QUILTING FRAME.

(Application filed June 27, 1898.\

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM MANSON PHILLIPS, OF FERRIS, TEXAS.

QUlLTlNG-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,928, dated June 13,1899. Application filed June 27, 1898. Serial No. 684,613. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Beitknown that I, WILLIAM MANsoN PHIL- LIPS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Ferris, in the county of Ellis and State of Texas,have invented a new and useful Quilting-Frame, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to quilting-frames, and has for its object toprovide a simple and efficient construction and arrangement of parts,including a cover adapted for use to protect the quilt upon the framefrom accumulations of dust.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in thefollowing description,and the novel features thereof willbe particularlypointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a quilting apparatusconstructed in accordance with my invention, the cover being shown inits folded or inoperative position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing thecover in its operative position. Fig. 3 is an edge view of thequilting-frame as seen when folded.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates intersecting end bars, which are pivotally connected forfolding and which at their upper ends support the side bars or rollers 2and 3, between which the quilt is stretched. The pivots by which the endbars are connected preferably consist of reduced terminals of alongitudinal brace at, and fulcrumed upon extensions of these reducedter-' minals are the end arms 5 of a cover-frame, said arms beingprovided at their free ends with hearings, in which are mounted thereduced terminals or trunnions of a cover-roller 6. Attached to saidcover-roller is a flexible coveringsheet 7, of any suitable material,adapted to be spread over a quilt when the frame is not in use or whenthe quilter is not occupied in quilting. The end arms of the cover-frameare notched, as shown at 8, to receive the extended terminals ortrunnions of the side or quilting rollers, saidextended trunnionsforming stops to limit the swinging movement of the cover-frame and thenotches being designed to allow the device to fold compactly when not inuse. Preferably only one terminal of each quilt-roller is extended toform a stop for the cover-frame, the rela tively opposite trunnions ofsaid quilt-rollers being extended for this purpose, whereby a stop isarranged in the path of each arm of the cover-frame, one stop serving toprevent excessive movement of the cover-frame in one direction while theotherstop performs asimilar function in connection with the movement ofthe cover-frame in the opposite direction.

In order to limit the spreading movement of the end bars of thequilting-frame, particularly during the application of batting, I employflexible connections 9, such as cords, attached at one end to the upperend of one of the pivotally-connected end bars and provided at the otherend with a loop 10, of suitable material, for engagement with the upperextremity of the other end bar, those end bars which are engaged by theloops being provided with suitable seats or notches 11 to prevent theaccidental disengagement of the loops therefrom.

When it is desired to leave a quilt upon the frame, the latter beingextended, the coverframe, which normally occupies a vertical positionout of the way of the operator, should be moved to a positionapproximately parallel, with one of the members of the quiltframe orover one of the side bars or rollers, as indicated in Fig. 2, and thecover-sheet should then be extended across the frame. When it is desiredto use the quilting-frame or to resume the quilting operation, thecoversheet should be rolled upon the drum provided for that purpose andthe arms arranged in a vertical position, whereby the coverrollerispositioned above the plane of the quilt, and hence out of the way ofthe oper- 'ator.

When the quilting-frame is folded, as indicated in Fig. 3, the flexibleholding devices or connections between the members of the frame .may bewound around the side bars or rollers resorted to Without departing fromthe spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described my invention, What I claim is 1. The combination with aquilting-frame, having side bars or rollers, of an auxiliary 1cover-roller, a pivotal frame for the coverroller, mounted upon thesupporting-frame of said side bars 01' rollers, and capable of swingingmovement to arrange said coverroller adjacent to either side roller, andav covering-sheet attached to the cover-roller, substantially asspecified.

2. In a quilting-frame, the combination with pivotally-connected endbars and con- 1 necting side bars or quilt-rollers, of end arms mountedcoaxially with said end bars, a coverroller mounted in bearings at thefree ends of said arms, and a covering-sheet attached to saidcover-roller, substan tially as specified.

3. The combination with a quilting-frame having pivotally-connected endbars, and side bars or qui1t-rollers mounted in hearings in said endbars, of a cover having end arms ful- Y orumed coaxially with the saidend bars, and i of a length greater than the upper arms of said endbars, and a cover-roller mounted in bearings in the end arms andcarrying a covering-sheet, the side bars or quilt-rollers beingterminally extended beyond the end bars to form stops in the path ofsaid end arms to limit the swinging movement of the latter,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM MANSON PHILLIPS.

V i t n'esses:

J. A. JoNEs, II. N. S INNEY.

